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PHUNGRAPH RECORD CABTONAOR RECEPTACLE.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST U. KINSEY, OF ENGLEWOOD,`NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND JOHN R. SOHERMERHORN, OF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

PHONOGRAvPH-RECORD CARTON OR RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,630, dated J' une 12, 1900;

j Application filed January 1l, 1900. Serial No. 1,049. (No model.)

To CLZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST U. KINSEY, a citizen oif the United States, residing at Englewood, in the county of Bergen and State 5 of New Jersey, have i nvented an Improvemen t in Phonograph-Record Cartons or Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

lleretofore in the storage, transportation, and care of records for phonographs, grapholo phones, and the like it has been usual to wrap the record in sheet-cotton or similar soft material and place the same in a cylindrical pasteboard receptacle or carton having a removable cover on one end. This operation was repeated each time the record was used;

and the object of my invention is to do away with as much as possible of this labor.

In my improvement the carton-cylinder independent of the covers is longitudinally dizo visible, so as to open for the ready reception z5 one end cover may be fixed and divided across the center and hinged, so that the parts of the carton-cylinder separate on the hinged parts of the cover.

The carton is to be larger than the record',

3o so as to receive Within it, around the record,

yielding material, such as sheet-cotton or felt in strips, either of which supports the record and keeps its surface from being injured. I prefer to employ pasteboard guides at the ends of the divisible carton to prevent endwise movement of the record when in place. I also prefer to form the'parts of the divisible carton so that When the record is in place the parts receive a slight pressure and 4o compression of the yielding lining, so as to 'bring them fully together, and when the cov- .rs are in place they are held frictionally by the resulting expansive action. i

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation,

Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, Fig. 3 a crosssection on the line x ofFig. 2, and Fig. 4 a cross-section with the covers removed, of the principal feature of my invention. Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section at one end, and Fig. 6 an elevation of the same end, of the carton and record with the cover removed, showing a modification of my improvement. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. S a crosssection at y y of Fig. 7, showing a further modification of my improvement.

The carton or pasteboard cylinderis divided longitudinally into half-cylinders a b. These, as shown in Figs. l to 4, inclusive, are connected alongone edge by a flexible hingestrip cl2, so asy to open lengthwise of the cylinder and lengthwise of the record z', and c c' are the removable covers. Adjacent to the respectivel ends of the carton-cylinder are yielding strips e c', preferably of felt, although any other similar suitable material may be employed, or the strips may be dispensed with and the record wrapped in sheetcotton, if desired.

The half-cylinders a b when the record is in place are brought together and the coversc c' are put in place to secure the record in the carton, so that the same is therein ready for storage, transportation, or the usual care bestowed on the records in the home of the user. I prefer to employ the yielding strips e e', of ,felt or similar material, as the s ame are fiX= tures in the respective ends of the carton-cyl# inder and are already in place adapted to receive and support the record and lessen the Work connected with the care of the record, and I prefer, further, to employ guide-strips d d', of pasteboard or similar suitable material, as Will be seen from Figs. 5 and 6, secured at the respective ends of the carton-cylinder outside of the yielding strips e c', and which guide strips come approximately against the respective ends of the record. The shape of these guide-strips and the manner of fastening the same to the carton-cylinder are immaterial, the same serving to prevent any longitudinal movement of the record in the carton and also to prevent the record falling out of the carton during or after the removal of the covers.

In the modification shown in Figs. 7fand8 the half-cylinders a b of the carton instead of being hinged along one edge have one cover securedin place, and divided across the center into the halves ff' and also hinged by a iiexible strip d2, so that the parts of the carton separate crosswise of the same, the hinge being upon the divided part of the IOO cover, so that the one half ot the carton swings entirely off the other half.

In my improvement it is quite essential that one or both covers should be held frictionally in place and to effect this reference is made to Fig. 4 and to the fact that the parts are so made with the flexible or yielding strips e e that when the halfcylinders of the carton are brought toward one another they do not quite touch, but require a slight pressure of the hand against the yielding material to bring their meeting edges into contact in order that one or both covers may be put in place, and the covers are held frictionally upon the ends of the carton by the resulting expansive action which comes into elect in the carton after the pressure of the hand is released.

I claim as my inventionl. As a new article of manufacture, a carton-cylinder longitudinally divisible so as to open for the ready reception or removal of the record, said divisible parts being connected along two adjacent edges to hinge the parts together, and narrow yielding strips of felt or similar material at the respective ends of the divided cylinder and extending around the same at the smooth ends of the record for the support of the record, and closures for the carton at its ends, substantially as set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a car-v ton-cylinder longitudinally divisible so as to open for the ready reception or removal of the record, said divisible parts being con nected along two adjacent edges to hinge the parts together and yielding strips of felt or similar material at the respective ends of the divided cylinder and extending around the same for the support of the record at its ends, the felt strips, when the record is in place, holding the meeting edges of the divisible cylinder slightly apart so that a pressure is required to bring the parts together, and covers for the respective ends of the carton which are held frictionally in place by the resulting expansive action, substantially as set forth.

As a new article of manufacture, 'a carton-cylinder longitudinally divisible so as to open for the ready reception or removal of the record, said divisible parts being con nected along two adjacent edges to hinge the parts together and yielding strips of felt or similar material at the respective ends of the divided cylinder and extending around the same for the support of the cover at its ends and guide-strips connected to the respective divisible portions of the carton at the ends outside of the yielding strips forming guides to prevent a longitudinal movement of the record, and covers for the carton, substantially as set forth.

L1. A receptacle for records consisting ot a cylinder divided longitudinally having a-removable cover on one and a fixed cover on the other end, said fixed cover being divided across its center and the two parts of same hinged together, and yielding strips ot felt or similar material at the respective ends of the divided cylinder extending around the same for the support of the record at its ends, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 6th day of January, 1900.

ERNEST U. KINSEY.

Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, S. T. HAVILAND. 

